Downtown Boise

"On occasion, you run into some really good potholes and you don't know how deep they are," said Mimi Kohnke of Boise. "It's kind of like diving into the abyss and the unknown when you hit one of those."

"The water's very cold coming off the bottom of the reservoir so they need to be careful," said Brian Sauer, Snake River Area Office Water Operations Manager. "We could be possibly seeing some banks eroding a little bit with the higher flows, so things have changed since last fall, last summer."

"It's better for everybody, not just the cyclists," said Lisa Brady, board president of the Treasure Valley Cycling Alliance. "It keeps people from hitting cyclists, keeps pedestrians away from heavier, moving traffic. It may cause some congestion, but I think people are going to work that out."

"I'm getting married this year, and I will have kids," said Megan Gailey of Boise. "If we do end up getting a large amount of (education) funding, then I will be more willing to stay in Boise and raise my kids here and in the schools that are here."

"We are racing the clock, yes," said Dan Everhart of Preservation Idaho. "It's an uphill battle because the neighborhood has been ignored for so long that a lot of the properties are more dilapidated, more run-down."

"They were just kind of bulldozing it," Christian Cardona said. "They were just kind of knocking the upper part of the house down. I think it was just unstable, so they were just knocking that down before it fell on someone and did any more damage."